Horizon Aircraft Unveils Key Advances for its Full-Scale Cavorite X7 Hybrid-Electric VTOL Aircraft

New Hori­zon Air­craft Ltd, doing busi­ness as Hori­zon Air­craft has shared excit­ing tech­ni­cal updates on the com­pa­ny’s Cavorite X7 hybrid-elec­tric VTOL air­craft.

Fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful tran­si­tion flight of its large-scale pro­to­type in May 2025, which val­i­dat­ed the Company’s patent­ed fan-in-wing tech­nol­o­gy, Hori­zon Air­craft has been design­ing and build­ing its full-scale mod­el.

The Cavorite X7’s refined design has been a col­lab­o­ra­tion between Hori­zon Aircraft’s high­ly skilled engi­neer­ing team and inter­na­tion­al­ly acclaimed mobil­i­ty design­er, Andrea Mocellin,
result­ing in a design that fur­ther enhances safe­ty and opti­mis­es per­for­mance.

Hori­zon Air­craft Co-Founder and CEO Bran­don Robin­son said: “These tech­ni­cal updates are a result of our world-class engi­neer­ing team’s abil­i­ty to effec­tive­ly enhance the per­for­mance of our air­craft.

“We remain com­mit­ted to build­ing one of the safest, tough­est, and most per­for­mant mod­ern VTOL air­craft, and these updates fur­ther advance that mis­sion.”

The fol­low­ing updates have been made:

Ver­ti­cal Lift Fans: The air­craft fea­tures a total of 12 ver­ti­cal lift fans: five in each wing and one in each canard. Replac­ing four small­er canard fans with two wing-size fans stan­dard­izes all 12 units, improv­ing man­u­fac­tur­ing effi­cien­cy, increas­ing per­for­mance, and sim­pli­fy­ing main­te­nance.

This update was achieved with­out com­pro­mis­ing safe­ty mar­gins, enabled by a redun­dant, dual-motor
archi­tec­ture pow­er­ing each lift fan.

Aero­dy­nam­ic Sur­face Improve­ments: The canard and tails have been repro­filed to low­er drag, improve cruise effi­cien­cy and enhance sta­bil­i­ty.

Enhanced Pas­sen­ger Expe­ri­ence: The Cavorite X7’s cab­in has been slight­ly extend­ed and its win­dows redesigned to pro­vide more legroom and improved sight­lines, cre­at­ing a more com­fort­able and pre­mi­um expe­ri­ence for pas­sen­gers.

You can hear more from Bran­don Robin­son by lis­ten­ing to a recent eVTOL Insights Pod­cast, where he talks more about Hori­zon Air­craft’s roadmap and the tech­ni­cal aspects of the Cavorite X7.